Modest Prosperity - China, Away from the Economic Miracle

Bescheidener Wohlstand - China abseits des Wirtschaftswunders

Booming mega-cities, garish advertising, shopping centres full of consumer goods: this is the
image of China we are constantly presented with on television. In fact, only the cities in the East of China are really profiting from the boom. However, more than half of the Chinese population lives in the country and has nothing to do with this źnew╗ life. This documentary shows Chinese village-life, where people live the perfect communist dream with all its drawbacks: itinerant workers, discrimination against women and an ailing health care system...